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Data from a range of different environments indicate that the incidence of death is not randomly distributed across families but, rather, that there is a clustering of death amongst siblings. A natural explanation of this would be that there are (observed or unobserved) differences across...
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Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005–14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525023
Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532393
Data from a range of different environments indicate that the incidence of death is not randomly distributed across families but, rather, that there is a clustering of death amongst siblings. A natural explanation of this would be that there are (observed or unobserved) differences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355648
Taking off from the self-evident fact that the population variable centrally figures in both labor and product markets …, this paper argues that the growth rate of population, its age structure and spatial distribution should be key … considerations in a country’s development strategy to promote rapid and sustained economic growth, full employment, poverty reduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371422
Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517894
Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476468
This paper investigates the high correlation in infant mortality across siblings using micro-data for each of the fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen states, there is evidence of a causal effect of a child death on the risk of death of the...
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turn can be used to improve human capital accumulation, socioeconomic status, and long-run economic development. One way to …
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under cultivation. Despite the abundance of industrial production, rural population has not benefited and majority are … observed that lack of employment opportunity might have caused the poverty in the state because only one-third population is …
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